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Neil Brand and Imogen Whitehead launch a new series

Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe are joined by Neil Brand and Imogen Whitehead as they add the first five tracks to the new series.

Pianist and silent film music specialist Neil Brand and trumpeter Imogen Whitehead join Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe to add the first five tracks of the new series, taking us from an energetic bee to Woodstock via The Netherlands and Bristol.

Producer: Jerome Weatherald
Presented with musical direction by Jeffrey Boakye and Anna Phoebe

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Flight of the Bumblebee by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Hocus Pocus by Focus
Teardrop by Massive Attack
Glory to God in the Highest by George Frideric Handel
Animal Crackers by Melanie

Other music in this episode

On my Radio by The Selecter
Flight of the Bumblebee performed by Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Flight of the Bumblebee performed by Wynton Marsalis
Hocus Pocus by Focus, Live from The Rainbow
Unfinished Symphony by Massive Attack
Sometimes I Cry by Les McCann
We Will Rock You by Queen
Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) by Melanie

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43 minutes

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  • Fri 14 Nov 2025 19:15
  • Tue 18 Nov 2025 11:00

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